Telnic Limited's .tel Treasure Hunt ("the Competition")

OFFICIAL RULES

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
These are the Official Rules that govern the relationship between you, the entrant (“you”, “your(s)”, “Entrant”) and Telnic Limited (37 Percy Street, London, W1T 2DJ, United Kingdom) (the “Promoter”). Participation by you in the Competition constitutes your full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Rules.

The Competition will begin at 12:01 p.m. British Summer Time ("BST") on May 14th, 2010, and end at 11:59 p.m. BST on August 20th, 2010 (the "Entry Period").   Entries received after the Entry Period will not be considered.  Telnic is solely responsible for all aspects of this Competition. The Promoter’s computer shall be deemed the official time keeping device for the Competition.

1. ELIGIBILITY:
1. The Competition is only open to residents of the United States and the United Kingdom, aged eighteen (18) years or older at the time of entry.
2. The Promoter and its affiliates, subsidiaries, agents, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, sales representatives, and their advertising and promotional agencies and suppliers of promotional materials, their respective employees, and their respective immediate family and household members are not eligible. In these Official Rules, “immediate family” includes mother, father, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters or spouse.
3. Internet Domain name registrars and web hosting companies, their employees, and their respective immediate family and household members are not eligible.
4. The Competition is subject to all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. The Competition is void in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, U.S. Military installations in foreign countries, Quebec, and otherwise where prohibited, taxed or restricted by law.
5. Only one entry is allowed per Entrant.
6. The Promoter assumes, and by entering the Competition, you represent and warrant that, you have legal capacity to enter the Competition and agree to the Official Rules (i.e. that you are of sufficient age and mental capacity and are entitled to be legally bound in contract).
2. HOW TO PLAY AND ENTER: 
   1. How to play:
      1. Each Friday during the first ten (10) weeks of the fourteen (14) week Entry Period, starting from 14th May 2010, one (1) chapter of the .tel Treasure Hunt Competition story will be published somewhere on the World Wide Web (a "Chapter").
      2. The location of each Chapter will be different each week and you can locate each new location by reading the current Chapter. Each Chapter will contain a clue, puzzle or riddle (“Puzzle”) which you will need to solve using the Promoter’s .tel search directory at http://telpages.com (the “Directory”).  Once you have solved the relevant Puzzle, you will access a .tel name which will have a web link to the next Chapter of the story.  The next Chapter of the story will not be published until the following Friday but the link to the location of the next Chapter will be available in the .tel name from the moment the current Chapter is published.
      3. A link to the first Chapter can be accessed from http://thejourneystarts.tel/
      4. You must solve the Puzzle in the first Chapter to locate the next Chapter and continue to solve the Puzzle in each subsequent Chapter to locate the next Chapter, until you have identified tenth Chapter in the final week of the Entry Period.
      5. The tenth and final Chapter will contain a last puzzle which will lead you to a final .tel site that will contain an email address to which you must submit your entry (the “Email Address”). Solving the final puzzle will reveal an answer in the form of a keyword which must be emailed to the address supplied on the final .tel site.
   2. How to submit your entry:
      

      Once you have followed the story, solved the Puzzles in each of the ten (10) Chapters and identified the answer to the final clue and located the Email Address, you must send an email to the Email Address by 20th August 2010, including the correct answer in the form of a keyword and the following information:

      1. Your full name,
      2. Your social security number (where applicable),
      3. Your country of residence, and
      4. A daytime telephone number or cell/mobile phone number.

      “Entr(y)(ies)”
      The Promoter will use the information submitted in the Entry solely in connection with the Competition.  It will not be disclosed to any third party except for the purpose of operating the Competition and fulfilling the Grand Prize where applicable. Please see our privacy policy at http://telnic.org/legal.html.

3. WINNER:
   1. The winner will be the first eligible Entry to be received by the Promoter on or prior to 20th August 2010 containing all of the of the entry criteria set out in rule 2.2 above (“Winner”). The Promoter will endeavour to notify the Winner by email on or about August 23rd, 2010   and send the Winner copies of an affidavit of eligibility and a release of liability/publicity and confirmation will follow in the mail within three (3) business days of such notification date.
   2. If the Winner cannot be contacted after two (2) attempts within three (3) days of the end of the Entry Period using the information provided by the Winner, the Promoter may select an alternate Winner in his/her place from all eligible entries received and such alternative Winner shall be the second eligible Entry to be received by the Promoter on or prior to 20th August 2010 containing all of the of the entry criteria set out in rule 2.2 above and so on until the Grand Prize can be awarded. 
   3. The Promoter also reserves the right to select an alternative Winner in the event that the Promoter has reasonable grounds for believing that a Winner has contravened any of these Official Rules.
   4. AWARD CONDITIONS. The Grand Prize award is contingent upon the Entrant fulfilling all terms and conditions of these Official Rules.  The Winner is subject to verification by the Promoter whose decision is final and binding in all matters related to the Competition.  Within twenty-one (21) days after the date on the initial notification email from the Promoter to the Winner, the Winner must complete, sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and a release of liability/publicity (where permitted) to the Promoter by postal mail to Telnic Limited, 37 Percy Street, London, W1T 2DJ, United Kingdom.  If the conditions of this rule are not completed within the specified period, the Grand Prize will be forfeited with respect to that Winner and will be awarded to an alternate Winner.  If the Grand Prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, the Grand Prize will be forfeited with respect to that Winner and will be awarded to an alternate Winner.
   5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, you are not a Winner until: (i) your eligibility has been verified and (ii) you have signed the required affidavit of eligibility and release of liability/publicity
4. PRIZES:
1. There is one (1) grand prize: one (1) gift voucher from ebookers.com to the value of £5,000 if the winner is a UK resident or $7,500 if the winner is a US resident to spend on one (1) holiday of the winner’s choice (the “Grand Prize”). On receipt of the voucher, the winner must contact ebookers.com via the contact information on the voucher to book the holiday package and a representative of ebookers.com will work with the  winner to organize the holiday package.  The holiday booking must be completed by [5.30pm] on 31 October 2010 and all travel must have been completed by 31 August 2011. Ebookers.com is a brand of Flightbookers Limited, registered in England with number 01616788, and registered office at 5th floor, 140 Aldersgate Street, London EC1A 4HY.  Ebookers standard booking terms and conditions can be found at http://www.ebookers.com/info/page?id=BookingTerms.
2. All expenses and costs not expressly listed in the prize description above are solely the Winner's responsibility. The Grand Prize is non-transferable and non-refundable and must be accepted as awarded. No cash or other substitution may be made except by the Promoter. The Promoter reserves the right to substitute the Grand Prize with another prize of equal or greater value if the Grand Prize is not available due to circumstances beyond the Promoter’s control. The Winner is solely responsible for all taxes associated with the receipt of any prize.
3. The Winner will receive the Grand Prize within four (4) weeks of selection and verification, provided that he/she (a) has meet all of the eligibility requirements, (b) is verified by the Promoter, and (c) has fully complied with these Official Rules.
4. The Grand Prize is subject to the terms and conditions of ebookers.com.
5. GENERAL CONDITIONS:
   1. The Promoter assumes no responsibility for late, damaged, ineligible, incomplete, lost, stolen, delayed, misaddressed, undelivered or misdirected Entries or emails and incomplete Entries will be disqualified.  All received Entries are the property of the Promoter and will not be returned.
   2. The Promoter reserves the right to cancel, suspend, and/or modify the Competition for any time and for any reason, including if any fraud, virus or other technical problem corrupts the administration, security, or proper play of the Competition, as determined by the Promoter in its sole discretion.
   3. The Promoter reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual or Entrant if it finds such person to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Competition, or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to undermine the legitimate operation of the Competition may be a violation of criminal and civil law. Should such an attempt be made, the Promoter reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law.
   4. The Promoter assumes no responsibility for (a) any error, omission, interruption, deletion or defect, delay in operation or transmission, or any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Telnic’s website or other third party sites hosting the competition, users, entrants or other causes; (b) any theft, destruction or alteration of Entries, or any unauthorized access to Entries; (c) any problem with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or telephone line, computer on-line system, server, provider, computer equipment, software; (d) any failure or delay of any email or Entry to be received by the Promoter on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof.
   5. The Promoter’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.
6. AGREEMENT TO OFFICIAL RULES:
   Your participation in the Competition constitutes your full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Rules (which may be amended or varied at any time by the Promoter with or without notice) and the Promoter’s decisions, which are final and binding in all matters relating to these Official Rules, the Competition, the results, the selection of the Winner and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.  Submitting an Entry will mean that you acknowledge and agree that you meet the eligibility criteria set out in Section 1.  Winning the Grand Prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth in these Official Rules.
7. PUBLICITY:
   Except where prohibited by law, participation in the Competition constitutes your consent to the Promoter’s use of your name, address, photograph or other likeness, voice, opinions, biographical information, and state and country of residence as required by the Promoter if you are declared a winner for promotional purposes in connection with the Competition in any media worldwide without further payment or consideration and as otherwise authorized in any related releases.
8. RELEASE:
   By receipt of the Grand Prize, the Winner agrees to release and hold harmless the Promoter and its officers, directors, shareholders, employees, and agents (the "Released Parties") from and against any and all liability, losses or damages arising out of or in connection with (a) the awarding, receipt, use or misuse of the Grand Prize or (b) participation in the Competition, save in the UK where liability for death and personal injury cannot be excluded.
9. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY:
   The Released Parties are not responsible for: (a) any inaccurate information, whether caused by Entrants or printing errors; (b) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the Competition; (c) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to electronic malfunctioning of any network, hardware or software; (d) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Competition or the processing of Entries; (e) lost, delayed, misdirected, or undeliverable mail; or (f) any injury or damage to persons or property including, but not limited to, death, which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from Entrant's participation in the Competition or receipt of any prize.
10. DISPUTES:
    Except where prohibited, you agree that: (a) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with, the Competition or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; (b) any and all claims, judgments, and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering a Competition, but in no event attorneys'/legal fees; and (c) you waive the right to claim any damages whatsoever, including, but not limited to, punitive, consequential, direct or indirect damages.
11. GOVERNING LAW:
    These Official Rules and all issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, your rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of the Promoter in connection with the Competition, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with English law and any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts., without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the English law or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the English courts.  
12. INTERNET SWEEPSTAKES PRIVACY POLICY: 
    By entering this Competition, you agree to the use of your personal information as described in the Official Rules and in Telnic’s Privacy Statement located at http://telnic.org/legal.html.
13. ODDS OF WINNING:
    Odds of winning depend upon the number of entries received.
14. OFFICIAL RULES AND WINNERS LIST:
    To request notification of the Winner and/or a copy of these Official Rules, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope by September 30th, 2010, to Telnic, Attn: Telnic’s .tel Treasure Hunt Competition, 37 Percy Street, London W1T 2DJ, United Kingdom or email community@telnic.org. All changes to these Official Rules will be posted in revised official rules on the Competition Website.